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L-Acoustics gear used for Broadway musical “Mean Girls”

“Mean Girls”, the stage adaptation of Tina Fey’s 2004 film of the same name, received twelve nominations for June’s 72nd Annual Tony Awards, including Best Musical. Also up for a Tony Award at Radio City Music Hall this year was Brian Ronan, who, with the assistance of his associate, Cody Spencer, served as the sound designer for “Mean Girls”.

Following its premiere at Washington D.C.’s National Theatre in October 2017, the production officially opened this April at the August Wilson Theatre on 52nd Street in NYC with a full complement of L-Acoustics loudspeakers.

With all audio gear supplied by Masque Sound, Ronan and his team specified and installed a number of LA8-powered distributed arrays across the theatre’s proscenium arch. Twin arrays of 12 Kara each are supplemented with three additional hangs of DV-Dosc. “Mean Girls” marks the first appearance of L-Acoustics’ Kiva II on Broadway, with identical arrays of seven enclosures flown on either side of the stage, just outside the proscenium.

In addition to the L-Acoustics systems, “Mean Girls” is also using a DiGiCo SD10 monitor console backstage for the band, paired with a DiGiCo SD7T out in the audience seating for house sound. Sennheiser RF is also referred to by the sound designer as “a staple.”

Upper photo shows “Mean Girls” Associate Sound Designer Cody Spencer (left) and Sound Designer Brian Ronan. (Photos: Joan Marcus/L-Acoustics)

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